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5 Mil Reis
| Issuer | Tesouro do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul |
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| Year | 1934 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S811 |
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| Obverse lettering | BONUS ESTADO DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL O TESOURO PAGARÁ AO PORTADOR DOIS MEZES DESTA DATA SÉRIE F 5 OSWALDO ARANHA PORTO ALEGRE, 1 DE MAIO DE 1934 CINCO MIL REIS |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in a single purple-violet tone and presents a central architectural vignette of the Palácio Piratini (the Government Palace of Rio Grande do Sul) rendered in fine engraving, with a classical colonnade façade set against a lightly shaded sky. The inscription 'ESTADO DO' arches across the top banner and 'RIO GRANDE DO SUL' occupies the lower banner, while numeral '5' appears in guilloche-bordered cartouches on each side. The printer's imprint 'LIT. DA LIVRARIA DO GLOBO - P. ALEGRE' is visible in small type at the bottom margin. |
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Rio Grande do Sul maintained its own state treasury notes well into the Republican period, a holdover from the decentralized fiscal arrangements that Getúlio Vargas — himself a gaúcho — had exploited politically before his 1930 rise to federal power. By 1934, issuing paper at the state level was already an anachronism, and this note belongs to what proved to be the final phase of such regional emissions before tighter federal monetary controls rendered them obsolete.
Litografia Henrique Meyerfreund was a Porto Alegre commercial printing firm, not a specialist security printer. The technical limitations of lithographic production for currency are visible in surviving examples, which often show soft impression and ink bleed not seen in intaglio-printed contemporaries.